Folly Kouevidjin Nadine Gordimer’s “Once Upon a Time” has a message of having paranoia take over your mind. The man and the wife in the story are so overtaken by fear and worry‚ that they try turning their once pleasant home into a second version of Fort Knox. This all culminates in the family suffering in the end when their child gets severely wounded in their overly fortified residence. The tale of paranoia and panic is heightened by the narrative devices used within it. Irony‚ syntax and humor
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at the school canteen. There were lots of complaints regarding this issue. In the first place‚ there are insufficient tables and benches. Our school has a student population of over 1 000. There is only one period of recess time for all forms. More than 80 per cent of the students go to the canteen during recess to buy food and drinks. Unfortunately‚ there are only about twenty-five tables and fifty benches which can accommodate less than half the number of students. As a
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Once Upon a Time is a bedtime story to children in which the author takes critical steps to show and bring the reader into the life of the unknown. The author of the passage gives the short story in fine pinpoint details that she gave off the fact that this has happened to her. In the passage she describes a family of which is in great fear of the surrounding area people of color. She depicts a joyous lifestyle that this family is living but of which the fear of the unknown involuntarily kills their
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FUTURE-TIME-SPAN AS A COGNITIVE SKILL IN FUTURE STUDIES by David Passig INTRODUCTION Future Studies is a field that began to develop in an established way during the Second World War‚ when armies were required to make what were called at the time “five-year plans.” This endeavor was developed primarily to plan the movement of forces during future battles‚ logistics‚ and so on. Over the years‚ hundreds of methodologies were developed‚ with whose help futurists studied future trends in various
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Book Review of “Time Management for Teachers” by Ian Nelson Design &Format: Time Management for Teachers by Ian Nelson was published in 1995 by Routledge publishers. It is a very handy book for teachers and administrators. It describes in a very precise manner that increased administrative duties‚ tests‚ exams‚ marking‚ etc. have brought teachers under great pressure. Therefore‚ in a limited time a teacher is supposed to do a lot of tasks. For this purpose‚ the teacher must know how to manage
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and monitoring. Taking time attendance of each employee should be done in a more advance method. Time is a special resource that you cannot store or save for later use. As they always say “Time is Gold”‚ each of us has the same exact amount of time each day. Time wasted cannot be retrieved. Some people feel like they don’t have enough time to finish their task. They blame lack of time with their unfinished business. Wise time management can help each individual to find time to finish their unachieved
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The concept of time is self-evident. An hour consists of a certain number of minutes‚ a day of hours and a year of days. But we rarely think about the fundamental nature of time. Time is the most important thing in this world. As the old saying goes “Time and tide never waits for someone". We can’t stop time if we could stop time‚ we’d be able to stop anything in this world. We should know how important time is and care for every second that passes. Most of the times we think that there
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Hemingway’s "In Our Time": Lost Generation "The times‚ they are a changing‚" famous words spoken by Bob Dylan‚ a king of his generation. "Lost generations‚" is an interesting phrase‚ but what kind of meaning should it hold? Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time is a true representation of a "lost generation" for the simple reason that all generations are eventually lost as time goes by. Hemingway focuses on a generation he knows a great deal about- his own. It becomes apparent throughout the novel
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years‚ as access to the best education and jobs is becoming increasingly competitive‚ it is not uncommon for some people insist that children should spend more time on schoolwork rather than other activities‚ which may district their attention. However‚ to a large extent‚ I believe that giving these young students a moderate amount of free time is a necessity. There seems to be an agreement that children need to develop many life skills other than intellectual ones. Where are life skills? Apparently
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watching television‚ but there ’s nothing you can do about it now. Don ’t throw in the towel yet‚ though--it ’s time to get cramming.” How often do you do this? Most common among high school and college-aged students‚ cramming is often used as a means of memorizing and the practice of working intensively to absorb large volumes of informational material in short amounts of time. It is a widely-used study skill performed in preparation of an examination or other performance-based assessment
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